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Results for 'āhuatanga'

āhuatanga - property, characteristic, feature, circumstance (āhua + nominal suffix -tanga)

āhuatanga, n. Likeness. Ka whakaahuatia hoki ahau ki to te manu ahuatanga (T. 18).

Williams Dictionary

Kua hōhā au ki tēnei āhuatanga.
I'm sick (bored) of this carry on.
Simple sentences: past completed tense - kua

Koirā tētahi o ōna āhuatanga pai.
That's one of his good characteristics.

He weriweri tērā āhuatanga.
That's an ugly situation.

Ko tētahi āhuatanga whakaohorere ki te ākonga reo Māori, ko te akoranga nei, ehara noa te wātū i te "ka".
A common confusion for Māori language learners is that the verb "ka" is not only used for future tense.

Ngā āhuatanga katoa o tēnei take.
All the aspects of this issue.

E tae ai tēnei take te whakatau, me mātua mōhio ngā āhuatanga katoa.
In order for this issue to be decided, one must first know everything that relates to it.

#47: The woman is sleeping at the man's house
#166: Nominaliztion
#24: I am reading the book
#161: I have been forgotten by your name
#128: I don't have any dogs, you don't have any dogs, they don't have any dogs
#96: Rangi is reading. The book is being read.
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